Constructing Domain-Specific Component Frameworks through Architecture Refinement

  • Authors:
  • Frédéric Loiret;Aleš Plšek;Philippe Merle;Lionel Seinturier;Michal Malohlava

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SEAA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 35th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recently, a plethora of domain-specific component frameworks (DSCF) emerges. Although the current trend emphasizes generative programming methods as cornerstones of software development, they are commonly applied in a costly, ad-hoc fashion. However, we believe that DSCFs share the same subset of concepts and patterns. In this paper we propose two contributions to DSCF development. First, we propose Domain Components --- a high-level abstraction to capture semantics of domain concepts provided by containers, and we identify patterns facilitating their implementation. Second, we develop a generic framework that automatically generates implementation of Domain Components semantics, thus addressing domain-specific services with one unified approach. To evaluate benefits of our approach we have conducted several case studies that span different domain-specific challenges.